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'It was a magical chemical balance': How Monty Python and the Holy Grail became a comedy legend
BBC News ^
| April 9, 2025
| by Nicholas Barber
Posted on 04/09/2025 5:40:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: EvilCapitalist
“Very few ladies appreciate a good Monty Python reference”
I’ve never thought of it that way. I’m a girl. When it was out it was summer. 1975? we used to pile into my brother’s truck, get beer, go to the drive in. Often.
The girls liked it. My friends did, anyway
My kids know it backwards and forwards. It’s hilarious. My father didn’t get it. He had a good sense of humor. Too linear for Brit humor perhaps.
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posted on
04/09/2025 6:41:07 AM PDT
by
stanne
(Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
To: redangus
HG is so filled with funny lines, it’s practically impossible to pick a favorite. But the one simple line that just cracks me up every time …. Comes after the fierce taunting from the Frenchie castle; “Is there someone else up there we can talk to ?”
That, and of course, when they say to ME, “obviously, you’re a busy man!”
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Loved the movie. However I’ve always thought they must have run out of money; hence the lame ending
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posted on
04/09/2025 6:44:04 AM PDT
by
j.havenfarm
(24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: Bob434
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
04/09/2025 6:45:18 AM PDT
by
alancarp
(George Orwell was an optimist.)
To: Clutch Martin
No. You have to try Marx bros again. I agree on stooges and chaplain and that Lloyd and Keaton were funnier. But park yourself and try either night at the opera. Animal crackers, day at the races. With someone. Someone who gets it.
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posted on
04/09/2025 6:45:19 AM PDT
by
stanne
(Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
To: stanne
I was at work at a store a few months ago and some SPAM, so started singing the SPAM song in front of two managers, one male and one female. The male got the reference immediately and started laughing, and the female just looked at me like I had gone nuts.
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posted on
04/09/2025 6:46:19 AM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children)
To: Fresh Wind
“ More likely a balance of magical chemicals!”
No these guys were highly intelligent. They all met at Cambridge in school.
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posted on
04/09/2025 6:47:09 AM PDT
by
stanne
(Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
To: EvilCapitalist
I am definitely female but not my of a lady
Fart challenge accepted
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posted on
04/09/2025 6:52:03 AM PDT
by
Nifster
( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
To: alancarp
“Five is right out!”
Ugh. So funny.
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posted on
04/09/2025 6:52:33 AM PDT
by
stanne
(Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
To: Mermaid Girl
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posted on
04/09/2025 6:54:55 AM PDT
by
Nifster
( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
To: Mermaid Girl
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posted on
04/09/2025 6:54:56 AM PDT
by
Nifster
( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
To: EvilCapitalist
“ I was at work at a store a few months ago and some SPAM, so started singing the SPAM song in front of two managers, one male and one female. The male got the reference immediately and started laughing, and the female just looked at me like I had gone nuts.”
When I’m out and about and at the supermarket or so with family who are girls any we discuss how many of something we need of something one of us says something like ‘five is right out’. Funny movies go over in our heads. The anarchy humor lends itself to dealing with the fluorescent light and the grocery store tasks
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posted on
04/09/2025 6:57:42 AM PDT
by
stanne
(Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
To: SomeCallMeTim
Heh, that is a line I have used a lot!
“Bad Zoot! Naughty Zoot!”
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posted on
04/09/2025 7:05:45 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
To: stanne
Exactly! I use that one a lot too...:)
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posted on
04/09/2025 7:06:12 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Wow, 53 comments and nobody has added "Cheese, Moose, Sister" as a thread Topic?!?!
You guys are slipping!!
... so I just added it.
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posted on
04/09/2025 7:06:57 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Stop all this sillyness. We have to conquer Greenland!
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posted on
04/09/2025 7:15:30 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: Mermaid Girl
Life of Brian is a funnier film, in my opinion.The Biggus Dickus scene is one of the funniest scenes in movie history, but I think Life of Brian is not quite as consistently funny as Holy Grail.
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posted on
04/09/2025 7:17:45 AM PDT
by
Family Guy
(A society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. -Williams)
To: teeman8r
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posted on
04/09/2025 7:19:00 AM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: EvilCapitalist
nonmigratory. Pronounced; non-my- grate-ory.
Bloody Brits.
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posted on
04/09/2025 7:24:39 AM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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